Railway-gate.



No. 842,892. v .PATENTED FEB. 5; 1907.

W. LAMBERT RAILWAY GATE.

APPLICATION FILED 001a, 1900.

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.WILLIAM LAMBERT, OF LATHAM, KANSAS.

RAILWAY-GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Application filed October 8, 1906. Serial No. 337,986.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LAMBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Latham, in the county of Butler and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a railway-gate, and designed particularly to prevent the passage of animals along a track, the gate being of that kind which will automatically drop on the approach of a train and rise after the train passes.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Flgure 1 1s a plan v1ew of the same. Flg. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 3 IS a vertical cross-section.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a well in which the gate works, having extensions 7 to provide room for the movement of the levers which operate the gate. The walls of the well and extensions may be built up of masonry and support the ends of the cross-ties 8, upon which the rails 9 are mounted.

Located within the well and projecting upwardly therefrom at the sides of the track are a pair of guide-standards 10, in which the gate 11 is movable up and down, the said gate fitting at its ends in the guides 12 of the standards. Springs 13, connected to a crosspieceat the top of the standards and to the gate, serve tonormally raise the gate.

The gate is mounted upon a base-board 14,

upon which bear the inner ends of levers 15,

which extend laterally under the rails of the track and are pivoted at their outer ends to fixtures 16, depending from the rails. These levers carry inclined. upwardly-projecting pieces 17 which work through slots 18 in the rails, and when the gate is lifted by the springs these pieces project above the surface of the rails, as shown. The pieces are of various heights, increasing gradually in height toward the gates, so that the wheels of the train ride thereover in succession and gradually depress the levers. The inner ends of the levers are forked around upright rods 19, which extend from the bottom of the well up toward the rails and which serve to guide the movement of said levers and hold them in place.

At 20 are indicated bails or loop-levers, which are pivoted to the standards at 21, and the inner arms of which engage under straps 22, fastened to the top of the gate, and the outer arms of which extend out beyond the standards. By pulling up the outer ends of these bails or levers the gate may be forced down below the track by hand.

In automatic operation a train approaching the gate will ride over and depress the pieces 17, and thus push down the levers 15 and force the gate down into the well. After the train passes the springs restore the gate to raised position. A series of the pieces 17 are used and extend along the track a sufficient distanceat least a car 1engthso that the wheels of the train will be upon one or more thereof at all times, so that the gate cannot rise while a train is passing thereo ver.

I claim 1. The combination with a railway-track and a well thereunder, of a gate slidable up and down in the well and through the track, and levers located under the track and connected to the gate and having projections extending upwardly through the track in position to be struck by the wheels of a train.

2. The combination with a railway-track and a well thereunder, of a pair of standards extending from the well above the track and.

having guides, a gate slidable up and down in the guides and into and out of the well and having means to normally raise the same above the track, and levers pivoted under the track on each side of the gate and connected thereto and having projections ex.- tending above the track in position to be struck and depressed by the wheels of a train.

3. The combination with a well having laterally extensions under the track on both sides, of standards in the well having guides and extending above the track on each side thereof, a base-plate movable up and down in the well between said standards and having thereon a gate movable up and down through the track, springs connected to said gate and the top of the standard, to normally raise the gate, and levers located in the said lateral extensions of the well and connected to the baseplate and having projections extending above the track in position to be struck and depressed by the wheels of a train.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM LAMBERT. Witnesses:

J. T. MORGAN, BELLE MORGAN.

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